Hengler, Flora (c. 1887–1965)
Hengler, Flora (c. 1887–1965)
American tandem dancer. Born c. 1887 in Brooklyn, NY; died Sept 7, 1965, in New York, NY; sister of May Hengler.
As a child, performed with sister May in Hengler and Delehanty troupe; made tandem act debut with May in spectacle 1492 (1893); performed specialty tandem dances in ballet and Spanish technique throughout Europe billed as The American Beauty Sisters; returned to NYC where they performed as the Sisters Hengler in The Sleeping Beauty and the Beast (1901), Tommy Rot (1902), The Runaways (1903), and The Cingalee (1904); worked with Weber and Field shows and with Charles Frohman; retired (early 1920s).
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